Military

Newspaper Vedomosti found the data on losses of Russian military for the last few years in the documents of the bidding for insurance of servicemen in 2018-2019. These data have not been disclosed by the Ministry of Defense since 2010.

As reported by RIA Novosti, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov acknowledged that Moscow has no evidence of cooperation between the coalition led by the United States and the terrorist group Islamic State.

On November 14th, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation published a screenshot from mobile game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron as “an irrefutable evidence” of U.S. cooperation with the Islamic state.

Several Russian military personnel were killed and wounded after an improvised explosive device detonated near the Russian base of Khemeymim in Syria. This was reported by one of the resources of the Syrian rebels.

According to Reuters referring to a document from Russian consulate, 131 Russian citizens died in the first nine months of 2017, including those who went there through private military companies (PMCs).